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Meet the OC State Senator Guiding California's AI Regulations

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California State Senator Tom Umberg during the opening of Hope Center in Fullerton, CA, on Thursday, October 27, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

State Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) is a retired Army colonel, a former federal prosecutor and he once served as a deputy drug czar under President Bill Clinton. He’s known for his pragmatism, his ability to reach across the aisle and now, in his position of senate judiciary committee chair, as a gatekeeper of artificial intelligence regulations being proposed in Sacramento.

Umberg joins Marisa and Scott to talk about those regulations, the state’s drug crisis and a political sea change in Orange County.

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